Alabama Department of Corrections officials say two work release inmates who escaped from two different job sites this week are back in custody.

Department spokesman Bob Horton said in a statement that 39-year-old Jermey James McCormick and 37-year-old Tory Mondale Elliott were taken back into custody on Thursday.

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Horton said McCormick was assigned to the Childersburg Work Release Center and left a job site in Sylacauga on Wednesday. McCormick was serving a 30-year sentence on a 2009 conviction for manufacturing controlled substances. Horton says he was found in Montgomery.

Elliott assigned to the Decatur Work Release Center and left a Huntsville job site Wednesday. Officials say Elliott returned Thursday morning to surrender. Horton says he was serving a 25-year sentence for robbery and was up for parole in 2018.